Alexander Palace
The Alexanderpalais , also called Prinz-Alexander-Palais or Battenbergpalais , was a city palace on the north-northwest corner of Luisenplatz in Darmstadt .
location
The building as a compact structure protruded from the Alte Post building on the northwest corner of Luisenplatz opposite the State Chancellery in the direction of Mathildenplatz to the north and west to the confluence with Rheinstrasse .
history
The palace was originally built in 1804 for the former Kgl. Prussian War Council and Secret Expedition Secretary and later Grand Ducal Hessian Court Chamber Councilor Michael August Wilhelm Moldenhauer (1758–1815) and later named after Alexander Prince of Hesse and the Rhine , who used it as a city palace for his children from around 1862. In 1944 the castle was almost completely destroyed in the bombing of Darmstadt in World War II.
Building description
The three-storey palace, built with reddish, presumably Odenwald sandstone , was set at right angles. It had a distinctive, rounded, slightly protruding corner in the direction of Luisenplatz, which was set like a risalit . On the ground floor, laid out as a balcony with four load-bearing columns in pairs , the three corner windows on each additional floor carried a triangular portal . The second floor of the corner risalit also had a balcony. To the west the building had an eight-axis wing, to the north the wing was divided: seven-axis up to a single-axis entrance portal, this below with flanking columns, the larger window on the second floor again provided with a portal, the wing now followed by only one two-storey six-axis course with high windows on the second floor, which is crowned by a sandstone frieze . Here in the northern part there was probably a large hall. The palace was provided with a circumferential roof balcony facing the square, which ended at the top with a three-part frieze in the corner projection, which was doubled in the middle and crowned with the Hessian coat of arms , flanked by lions. All windows facing Luisenplatz were framed with sandstone. The roof was implemented as a hipped roof , but ended with a stepped gable to the north .
The style of the city palace can be assigned to historicism , with baroque and classicist principles being visible.
The Prinz-Karl-Palais in Karlsruhe , also destroyed by the turmoil of the Second World War , was very similar in configuration and style, although it was built more than 50 years later. Unlike the Alexander Palace, it was only laid out on two floors.
literature
- Fritz Ebner: Das alten Darmstadt , Eduard Roether Verlag, Darmstadt 1965, p. 22
Web links
- Representation of the Alexanderpalais around 1820 (red building) in: View of Louisenplatz, after 1820. Historical views of the town, plans and floor plans (as of June 11, 2008). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 21, 2014 .
- Prinz-Alexander-Palais in Darmstadt from 1870 in www.bildarchivaustria.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Genelogy.net: Michael August Wilhelm MOLDENHAUER ; his daughter Henriette was the wife of the famous chemist Justus Liebig
- ^ Moldenhauer, Michael August Wilhelm. Hessian biography (as of April 27, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on December 21, 2014 .
- ↑ (Ed.) Helmut Schaller, Rumjana Zlatanova: German-Bulgarian Culture and Science Transfer , Frank & Timme GmbH, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86596-526-4 . P. 106 f.
- ↑ to 1900 Douglas Palais called
- ↑ Historical views of the Palais Douglas in the Photo Archive Photo Marburg
Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 24 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 1 ″ E